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AMC Entertainment chief executive Adam Aron is looking at mid-June to reopen US movie theaters. The US market’s largest cinema chain shuttered all 600 of its national locations March 17 as the coronavirus ripped through the country. The pandemic has caused the temporary closure of nearly all of the country’s 40,000-plus screens. “We said we …
AMC Entertainment chief executive Adam Aron is looking at mid-June to reopen US movie theaters.
The US market’s largest cinema chain shuttered all 600 of its national locations March 17 as the coronavirus ripped through the country. The pandemic has caused the temporary closure of nearly all of the country’s 40,000-plus screens.
“We said we expected to be shut for six to 12 weeks. That would be May 1 to mid-June. That might be more the right timing,” Aron said Tuesday on CNBC.
After AMC closed all of its US movie theaters, it furloughed or laid off about 26,000 employees. It also furloughed all of its 600 corporate employees, including Aron himself.
“I think if we learned anything in the last two weeks is people just so want to get out of their houses,” Aron told CNBC. “I think we’re all feeling cooped up and want to get out and have life return to normal.”
Still, Aron cautioned that the country needs to hit a point where the virus is no longer such a threat. At that point, quarantines could be lifted and theaters could reopen, he said.
Regal Cinemas, the second-largest movie chain in the US, which shuttered all of its 543 US locations on March 16, said at the time that it would close down all of its locations indefinitely.
Calls seeking comment on updated guidance on reopening weren’t immediately returned.
